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Coastal Marine Zones [mzddmmyy]
Offshore Marine Zones [ozddmmyy]
High Seas Marine Zones [hzddmmyy]


Overview of Coastal, Offshore and High Seas Marine Zones
Detailed view of the Marine Zones and access to forecasts.
Detailed view of the Offshore Zones and access to forecasts.

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Description Valid Date Available Version(s) Size (bytes) #Records MD5Sum Documentation
Coastal Marine Zones
Including the Great Lakes
2 April 2013 Download Compressed Shapefile mz02ap13.zip 17,989,554 463 df599558ba92637c11160101a359f7cb Change History Metadata
1 October 2013 Download Compressed Shapefile mz01oc13.zip 17,852,405 470 f8c7c23292b86fb5cf6d1876414496bd
Offshore Marine Zones 2 April 2013 Download Compressed Shapefile oz02ap13.zip 446,346 56 Change History Metadata
High Seas Zones 30 March 2009 Download Compressed Shapefile hz30mr09.zip 103,258 7 Change History Metadata

File Specifications:

Naming Convention: mz ddmmyy .shp/.shx/.dbf - where .shp, .shx, .dbf are the extensions of the 3 component files of the shapefile and .prj is the projection file.
Shapefile Type: polygon
Source: NWSI 10-302

Attributes:

field name type width,dec description
ID character 6 Marine Zone Identifier
WFO character 3 Assigned WFO (Office Identifier)
NAME character 250 Name of Marine Zone
LON numeric 10,5 Longitude of Centroid [decimal degrees]
LAT numeric 9,5 Latitude of Centroid [decimal degrees]

Comments: Due to increased lead time for implementation of offical changes, the current version and the new version of the shapefiles will not be available on this page.



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